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A GIRL under the age of 12 was among those who had been rescued from forced labour in recent months, having been trafficked to Ireland from abroad.

The girl had been engaged in domestic labour in a house in the Dublin area and was now safe in the care of the HSE, according to the executive director of the Department of Justice’s anti-human trafficking unit, Marion Walsh.